"klafter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1818, Richard Bright, Travels from Vienna Through Lower Hungary: With Some Remarks on the State of Vienna During the Congress, in the Year 1814",
          "text": "... for the purpose of working the machine, employed in raising water from the mines, and a tunnel of 300 klafters long, passing through a mountain, which serves as a road for foot-passengers, between Herrengrund and Altgebirg.",
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          "ref": "1874, W. P. Blake, Report on the Vienna Exposition, in the United States Congressional Serial Set, page 133",
          "text": "The building for the protection of the horses was erected on three sides of a square of 48 klafter, and was 12 klafter wide, making a structure 72 klafters long on each side, giving a covered space of 2,304 square klafter."
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        {
          "ref": "1947, Pacific Northwest Quarterly",
          "text": "Ten or more families unite to dig a hole 20 to 30 klafters long and 3 to 4 wide, add to this excavation with a frame of driftwood,148 of which they also make the roof, and cover it with long dry grass or sod, which is held down with[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "2012 May 31, C. Mileto, F. Vegas, V. Cristini, Rammed Earth Conservation, CRC Press, page 84",
          "text": "According to this instruction, one lot must be 75 to 100 klafters long and 12 to 15 klafters wide (1 klafter = 1[.]896 m). A house must be on the street line of a lot with its narrow side and the distance between houses should be at least[…]",
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        "A unit of length formerly widely used in Central Europe, derived from the span of a man's outstretched arms, typically defined as six local feet (equivalent to a fathom) or about 1.8 meters."
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  "word": "klafter"
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        "en:Units of measure"
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          "ref": "1818, Richard Bright, Travels from Vienna Through Lower Hungary: With Some Remarks on the State of Vienna During the Congress, in the Year 1814",
          "text": "... for the purpose of working the machine, employed in raising water from the mines, and a tunnel of 300 klafters long, passing through a mountain, which serves as a road for foot-passengers, between Herrengrund and Altgebirg.",
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          "ref": "1874, W. P. Blake, Report on the Vienna Exposition, in the United States Congressional Serial Set, page 133",
          "text": "The building for the protection of the horses was erected on three sides of a square of 48 klafter, and was 12 klafter wide, making a structure 72 klafters long on each side, giving a covered space of 2,304 square klafter."
        },
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          "ref": "1947, Pacific Northwest Quarterly",
          "text": "Ten or more families unite to dig a hole 20 to 30 klafters long and 3 to 4 wide, add to this excavation with a frame of driftwood,148 of which they also make the roof, and cover it with long dry grass or sod, which is held down with[…]",
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          "text": "According to this instruction, one lot must be 75 to 100 klafters long and 12 to 15 klafters wide (1 klafter = 1[.]896 m). A house must be on the street line of a lot with its narrow side and the distance between houses should be at least[…]",
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